President Trump

Just seen Trumps tweet calling Musks dick a pigs tail and he has videos, wtf! Musk will know loads especially Putin stuff this could get tasty very very quickly.
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
I know we have a few American posters. What’s it like living with all this?

Have you noticed changes in behaviours in terms of spending etc?
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Distressing, and no…but that doesn’t mean it’s not true!

If 330M people make a small change (“I’m going to save/not spend $100 this month”), that’s a $33,000,000,000 change in spending! However, what many people think us that some big ticket spending has been brought forward due to the threat of tariffs creating much higher prices, so we haven’t really seen the effects of that yet.

EVERYTHING in the American economy right now feels like it’s tied to TWO THINGS:

China tariffs
Federal Reserve Interest Rate decisions

If either one moves in the “wrong” direction, we see the Stock Market react violently and people suggesting the sky is falling.

However, Trump is hoping that he can change the mentality of the markets enough to get the Fed to lower interest rates, WITHOUT jawboning us into recession. He’s getting plenty of help from the MAGAts on Wall Street who are doing his cheerleading for him in public and on TV, but Jerome Powell hasn’t fallen for it YET!

The pressure is increasing as tariff threats (and reality) start to hit the economy.

Once Trump gets his interest rate cuts, the equity market will explode to the upside, and short term rates will fall, dragging longer term rates with them. That last part is the great unknown and the scary part, as that’s what is tied to consumer interest rates (mortgages, credit cards, car loans) and, in large part, what costs us a $1T annually just to service.
 
SkyBlueFlux said:
It’s enough to make you question whether democracy is really such a great idea after all.

I know it’s the “best system we’ve tried” but I really feel like giving sortition a go couldn’t be worse than this.
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I’m interested in this “sortition” method of organizing society.

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This is just weird from Agent Orange:
"I don’t mind Elon turning against me, but he should have done so months ago. This is one of the Greatest Bills ever presented to Congress. It’s a Record Cut in Expenses, $1.6 Trillion Dollars, and the Biggest Tax Cut ever given. If this Bill doesn’t pass, there will be a 68% Tax Increase, and things far worse than that. I didn’t create this mess, I’m just here to FIX IT. This puts our Country on a Path of Greatness. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
 
Don Karleone said:
I hope not.
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You’d assume he’ll come out in support of Trump, but, he has strong links to the Silicon Valley types, so, maybe a power play is in the workings. The man is clearly motivated solely by power - backstabbing Trump to do so is in his repertoire, I reckon. Musk’s endorsed him, calling for Trump’s impeachment (laughable), and Vance to assume to Presidency. Either way, the hillbilly is enthralled in something of a custody battle now, a child of divorce.
 
ChicagoBlue said:
I’m interested in this “sortition” method of organizing society.

Tell me more…
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I was being a little glib because I don’t think it’s really feasible in the modern world but sortition is basically how it worked in the world’s first democracy in Athens.

People didn’t vote for a president or for parties like today. The power resided with the people by virtue of the fact that legislative bodies were filled by a representative random sample of the citizenry. A bit like how juries are chosen in trials, this is how Athenians would appoint their assemblies by random lot. There was still generally a technocratic body of elites who would suggest legislative agendas but it would then have to be passed via these assemblies of random citizens before then ultimately being debated by the broader citizenship where they could all directly vote whether to adopt the suggested policies.

The randomness was effectively a safe guard against corruption as the entire assembly would change basically every year, and serving members would get paid a wage for their time the same way our MPs do. You’d still get influential figures who would throw their weight behind policies, but this was generally achieved by those with strong rhetoric skills and those with the charisma to persuade people to vote the way they deemed best.
 
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